Garment-display device.



W. MEHLER'. GARMENT DISPLAY DEVICE. APPLICATION FILED D3017, 190a.

Patented Feb. 9. 1909.

WITNESSES ATTOR/VE Y WILLIAM MEHLER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

GARMENT-DISPLAY DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 9, 1909.

Application filed December 17, 1908. Serial No. 467,970.

To all Qohmn it may concern."

The main horizontal bar a from which Be it known that I, WILLIAM MEHLER,a some of the clothes are suspended is rigidly citizenof the UnitedStates, and a resident of New York, county and State of New York, haveinvented Ini rovements in Garment- Display Devices, of which thefollowing is a specification.

The class of garment display devices to which this invention relatescomprises the use of a horizontal bar on which the clothes are suspendedand means for setting the bar in two positions, within and outside of acontaining cabinet.

This invention consists in providing an auxiliary suspension bar havingmeans by which it may be attached to the main bar so as to be movedtherewith and hang in vertical planes below it when in its twoposltions.

. It also consists of controlling and locking devices for limiting themovement of the auxiliary bar to the two bounding vertical planes of themain bar and for looking or olding the auxiliary bar in said positions.By the use of this auxiliary bar the hen ing capacity for comparativelyshort clot es, for exhibition purposes &c., of display devices of thischaracter is doubled, the height of the auxiliary bar being aboutone-half that of the main bar, and the hanging con nections are suchthat theauxiliary bar may be readily detached and stored away, as forinstance in the rear of the inclosing cabinet,

when it is desired to exhibit long clothes, as overcoats &c., which byreason of their length would not hang properly from the main bar werethe auxilliary bar present.

A construction with these and minor features will now be described byreference had to the accompanying drawings. in which- Figure 1 is atransverse section of a device embodying my present invention; Fig. 2 isa similar view of the upper part of the device,

showing the horizontal suspension bars in outer positions; Fig. 3 is afront elevation of the upper part, and Fig. 4 is a plan taken on thesection line 4, 4, Fig. 1.

The particular kind of clothes display device, having a movablehorizontal suspension bar, to which the auxiliary suspension bar of thisinvention is shown applied in the drawings is the one shown and de-'scribed in an application for Letters Patent by me May 20, 1908, SerialNumber 433,854, so a brief description of the main features will hereonly be necessary.

connected'a't its ends to the upper ends of the supporting rods byfittedto rock from their lower ends by being there provided with shoes 0,having rounded b68.Il11gSUl-.

faces and held in bracket supports d.

For the purpose of this invention it will be understood that pivotal orother connections may be used at the lower ends of l the rods 6 whichprovide for the free inward and outwardmo'vements of the main bar a.

The bar a and the rods 1) are moved and controlled by a lever e pivotedat f to a bracket g, having a slot which embraces a stud at the side ofthe rod 6 and a handle 7L ofiset therefrom to extend in a plane withinthe inner face of the rod 1) for the easy manipulation of the device bymeans of said handle' The handle may be duplicated at the other end ofthe device as shown by the dotted lines, Fig. 3.

The device may be inclosed in a cabinet, shown by the dotted lines '5,and attached thereto as in the before-mentioned application, or thebracket supports d may be secured to the floor, but preferably to aboard 7', to hold them in proper relative positions, which inturn may besecured. to the floor; and the upper bracket g maybe secured to thewall, or where two are used they may be secured'to a board, shown by thedotted lines 7c, Fig. 3, which may be secured to the wall. Fastening thecontrolling connections to boards 7' and is will greatly faciitate theerection of the device when applied for use without a containingcabinet.

The manner in which the rods 1) are rocked and the bar an easilymovedfroni its inner position, F-ig. 1, to its outer'position, Fig, 2,and reversely, and held in said two positions by the lever 6 will beunderstood from an inspection of the drawings.

The auxiliary suspension'bar Zis of such length as to ass between thetwo side rods 1). It is rigidly connected at its ends to rods m, m,which at their upper ends are provided with hook shaped sockets a, nformed to seat over the rounded upper ends of the rods, b, b and to havea partial rocking action thereon. The rods m, m may of course be made tohook over the bar a, alongside of the side rods 1), b. To prevent thebar I swinging beyond positions vertical to the bar a strap pieces 0, 0are secured to the rods 6, b, are so located as to exten laterally andhave their ends bent to act as stops p for limiting the movements of thebar I as before described; and to hold thebar l in the two outerpositions knobs or projections q'are formed on the faces of the strapsin such positions as to hold the rods m against the stops p, as clearlyshown" in Figs. 1, 2 and 4; the said straps having sufficient resiliencyto permit the rods m passing over the holding knobs when the suspensionbars are moved from one position to the other. This auxiliary suspensionbar converts a garment display device of the character described madefor the exhibition of long clothes into one adapted clothes, and in sodoing doubles. the clothes hanging capacity'of the device, the clothesbeing suspended from the bars by any suitable hangers, as r, 'r", and asthe auxiliary bar is readily detachable by simply lilting its upperhooks off the rod b, the device is then again adapted for the exhibition&c. of long clothes.

I claim as my invention 1. In a garment displaydevice, comprising ahorizontal bar and its supports and means for setting it and holding itin difl'erent positions,the combination o f an auxilr I bar locateddirectly iary suspending bar rovided'with end hanging rods adapted toang at their upper ends at the ends of the -main bar with the auxiliarybar located directl below the main bar in all ositions occupie by it. 7

2. n a garment display device, comprising a horizontal bar. and itssupports and means for setting it and holding it in different positions,the combination of an auxil means for setting and holding it indifierent positions, the combination of an auxiliary suspending barprovided with end hanging rods adapted to ang at their u per ends at theends of the main bar with t lie auxiliary below the main bar in allositions occupled by it, and means carried by the supports of the mainbar for arresting the movements of the auxiliary bar beyond verticalplanes passing through the main bar when it is in the inner and outerlimiting positions. 1 a v 4. In a garmentdisplay device, compris ing ahorizontal bar and its supports and for holding short means for settingand holding it in different positions, the. combination of an auxiliarysuspending bar rovided with end hanging rods adapted to ang at their uper ends at the ends of the main barwith t e auxiliary bar locateddirectly below the main bar in all positions occupied by it, and meansfor locking the auxiliary bar vertically under the main bar. in the twolimited positions.

5. In a garment display device, comprising a horizontal bar and its suports and means for setting and holding it in difierent positions, thecombination of an auxiliary suspending bar rovided with end han 'ngpositions occupied by it, and means carried by the supports of the mainbar for locking the auxiliary bar vertically under the main bar in thetwo limited ositions.

6. In a garment displity device, in combination, a horizontal suspensionbar, supporting rods connected at their u per ends to the sus ension barand provide at their lower en s with swinging connections, means forrocking the supporting rods to set the suspension bar in inner and outerpositions, an auxiliary suspension bar having end rods pro-' vided withhooks adapted toengage with the upper ends of the main bar supportinrods and by which the auxiliary bar is he (1 beneath the main bar, stopsconnected to the main bar supporting rods to limit the moves ments ofthe auxiliary bar and those of the main suspension bar.

1 7. In a garment display device, in combination, a horizontalsuspension bar, supporting rods connected attheir u per ends to the susension bar and provide at their lower GDL s with swinginconnections,-means for rocking the supporting rods to set the suspensionbar in inner and outer positions, an auxiliary sus ension bar having endrods provided wit hooks adapted to engage with the upper ends of themainban supportin rods an by which the auxiliary-bar is he (i beneaththe main bar, resilient strapsconnected to the main bar supporting rodsprovided with stops and locking means arranged to act on end rods of theauxiliary bar-for holding. the auxiliary bar directly underthe mainsuspension bar when in the inner and outer positions.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto Witnesses: I

J C. MoKIBBIN, J ums A. Henson.

